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I know there's no ortho in Revit, but how can I make sure my lines are perpendicular to each others? My project has two buildings linked together, one at 0, 90 degree, and the other is 120 dgrees. After I exported my drawing to AutoCAD I noticed that the 120 degrees building has some lines that are not perpendicular to each others..so what's the best way to control that in Revit? Thanks 
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What do you mean "no ortho in Revit?" I know you don't mean this but straight from Revit's HELP orthographic view A 3D view that shows a building model in which all components are the same size, regardless of the camera’s distance from them. I assume you mean drawing using angular snaps. Revit does not like very small angles and so it is more "ortographic" then CAD. You can set your snap angles under - Settings - Snaps. And unless you are doing something really starange, if it looks like 90, it probably is. You can always add an angular dimension to see what is happening. BTW... If you have a building skewed from another building, rotate the view when working on the skewed building and everything will work easier.
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Thanks WWHub..the building has two parts, only one of them is skewed, so it is possible to rotate the view only when I'm working on that part and then rotate it back to normal when I'm done?
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I would make a working view that has this building rotated. Fact is, shouldn't all the sheet views for this building be rotated?
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Thanks WWHub..the building has two parts, only one of them is skewed, so it is possible to rotate the view only when I'm working on that part and then rotate it back to normal when I'm done?
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Sure... but do what I suggested. Set up a rotated view to model in... REVIT is different from CAD - Start thinking REVIT. Model elements are not view specific so model from a view that is skewed. You never have to place that view ... it is for working in
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Great..I'll do that, but I don't know how to do that..I duplicated the plan view (level 1), and renamed it as rotated plan view, and I stopped here..I don't really know how to continue  can you help me please?
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Read this topic in your HELP: Rotating a View by the Crop Region
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Found it Thank you so much for your help
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When doing this, does the project's 'True North' also rotate with the cropped region? If not, this would be a great way to work around the confusion of 'True North' vs. 'Project North'
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North is North.... A project setting - has nothing to do with a view really. If you rotate a view north is still the same in relation to the building.
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Ok, that was my understanding as well. However, this means we could have a building that is not facing true North and still use this method to rotate the view for our sheet layout; am I correct? Reading the help illustrates a 90 degree rotation Can you do anything other than 90 degrees?
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That is correct... but you can also rotate north in relation to your project. Either way works
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